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@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ A basic programming language written in Nim
## Project structure
The project is split into several directories and submodules to ease human inspection:
- `README.md` -> This file here (lol)
The project is split into several directories and submodules:
- `docs` -> Contains markdown files with the various specifications for NimVM (bytecode, grammar, etc)
- `docs/bytecode.md` -> Lays out the bytecode specification for NimVM as well as serialization guidelines
- `docs/grammar.md` -> Formal grammar specification in EBNF syntax
@ -45,9 +44,9 @@ The compilation toolchain has been designed as follows:
- constant folding (meaning 1 + 2 will be replaced with 3 instead of producing 2 constant opcodes and 1 addition opcode)
- global name resolution. This is possible because NimVM's syntax only allows for globals to be defined in a way that
is statically inferrable, so "name error" exceptions can be caught before any code is even ran.
- throw warnings for things like unreachable code after return statements (optional)
- throw warnings for things like unreachable code after return statements (optional).
The optimizer also detects attempts to modify a constant's or a let's value at compile-time.
The optimizer also detects attempts to modify a constant's or a let's value at compile-time.
- Once the optimizater is done, the compiler takes the AST and compiles it to bytecode for it to be later interpreted
by our virtual machine implementation